EV Grieve

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Week in Grieview

[East Fourth Street at the Bowery]

Q-and-A with Patricia Krasnausky, president and CEO of Cabrini Eldercare, soon to be home to condos (Tuesday)

Remembering MCA on Avenue A (Friday)

Big changes coming to 243 E. Second St. (Monday)

18 photos of the LES/East Village that you may not have seen before (Wednesday)

The Neighborhood School library spared for now (Wednesday)

Why Zaragoza should be able to sell beer (Friday)

New gallery space at Dixon Place (Wednesday)

A New York Met in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)

Meatball Factory closes, now a pop-up restaurant called Hole Foods (Friday)

Jane's Sweet Buns now has a bar (Thursday)

Proto's Pizza opens, and people seem to like it (Thursday)

Bishops & Barons now open on IHOP Way (Monday)

About this weekend's Kinofest NYC (Wednesday)

May Day at Union Square (Tuesday)

Hey, look at Chloe Sevigny's bathroom (Monday)

Tough times for Avenue B (Tuesday)

8:47 a.m., Avenue A, May 6

Open call for Art Around the Park

As we noted yesterday, the Howl! Festival is June 1-3 in Tompkins Square Park. ~ Joan sent along the photo of the poster for Art Around the Park on June 2-3. Check the Howl! website here for more details.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Fallout from last night's Bear Crawl continues

Wow. The carnage continues.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Bear crawl ends predictably enough on Avenue A

Today on Union Square

Photo by Bobby Williams

Was that a UFO over the East Village yesterday?

From reader Brian B. ... this incident occurred yesterday.

I was walking west on 10th Street between Ave A & B at 5pm today, I looked up and spotted a small red dot floating stationary way up in the clouds.

At first I assumed the red dot was a a child's "toy" balloon that had floated up out Tompkins Square Park. For most of the sixty seconds it took me to travel the block, I watched the red "ballon" remain in a stationary position (against the edge of the buildings in the distance).

When I got to the corner of 10th & A, I watched the "balloon" for a few more seconds, then turned my attention to the pedestrian traffic in front of me as turned right and began walking north on Avenue A.

While I was waiting for light at 12 Street, I looked up and noticed that the "red ballon" that had been floating stationary back over 10th Street was now traveling in a straight line across the horizon acting very much UNLIKE a balloon.

I took out my camera and shot this video. (Canon PowerShot ELPH 300HS 13X optical zoom)

The sun was still pretty bright at 5pm and I my camera's display was too dim for me to see if I was capturing the tiny dot that was hardly visible to my eye. I figured that with the camera zoomed in all the way, the footage would be too shaky to show much.

For most of the footage, the object looks dark, but during the last few seconds of the footage, you'll notice the red coloring I saw when I first mistook it for a balloon.

I don't think it's an alien space craft or anything, but it was definitely a UFO in the sense that it was flying and I couldn't identify it. I'm postive it wasn't a plane or a helicopter. Some kind of surveillance drone? Anyone have any idea what this could be?

I'm totally going with alien spacecraft. But I'm a realist.

You? Your thoughts on what this was. (Aside from Lady Gaga or Lana Del Rey, of course.)

And keep in mind: This isn't the first time for something like this happened around here. Remember this. Or this.

Breaking: World's largest pink stretch Hummer spotted on Avenue B

At East Ninth Street. Woo! x 2.

Howl! Festival set for June 1-3

Several readers pointed us to the Howl! Festival's Facebook page... where we found the following announcement posted this morning:

HOWL! Festival 2012 arrives June 1, 2, and 3 in Tompkins Square Park. Non-stop fun and nonsense for kids of all ages~

Check the Howl! website here for more details.

Our previous coverage is here.

Bear crawl ends predictably enough on Avenue A

Avenue A at Second Street.

Same shit every weekend. The SB&T (stuffed bear and taxidermy) crowd invades the neighborhood... and we have to see this kind of thing the next morning. Spent an hour cleaning the stuffed white cotton off my front stoop.

Snakes on an Avenue

[Photo by Marjorie Ingall]

You may have seen this last evening... above, on Seventh Street... and, later, a show on St. Mark's Place and Second Avenue... via EV Grieve reader Rob

Times like these we turn to the Hollywood classics, such as Ice Cube in "Anaconda" — "They got snakes this big?"